EXCEEDTHE SPACE PROVIDED. The primarygoal of the NIMH Career Opportunities program is to strengthenresearch and research experiences in scientific disciplines related to mentalhealth in order to increase the number of well qualified minoritystudents competing for Ph.D. and MDgraduate programs. In order to meet this goal HamptonUniversity,an Historically Black University, is submitting an application for a five year renewal of the Collaborative Research Training Model for the behavioral sciences. The HamptonCollaborative Research Training Model is organized around Hamptonbased research programs that each are associated with conceptually related well established satellite research facilitiesacross the nation. Close collaboration among all research and educational entities that make up this program includingthe Hampton based research projects, the satellite research facilities, program managementand the COR Scholar educational curriculum will ensure the development and integration of the competencies and skills required to perform research activities at Hamptonand at the summer satellite placements. The cornerstone of our program is the active participation of all of the COR Scholars during the academic year in on-going Hamptonbased research projects and summerplacements in longstanding programs of nationally recognized researchers at major universities across the nation. Scholars will participate in all of the Hampton based research projects through research seminars, literatureresearch and review presentations, research proposal development, trainingand supervision interactions with project staff in data collection and analysis and research report writing and development of conference presentations during their two years in the COR Scholars Program. The existing Honors curriculumwill be augmented by 30 semester hours for COR Scholars to completeadvanced training in orientation to mental health research, computer technology related to mental health research, honors sections of research methodology and statistics courses and the intense research supervision and mentoring with Hamptonbased and satellite research preceptors. Participants will be undergraduates who have completed two full years in psychology or sociology with a GPA of 3.0 or better (4.0 scale) and give evidence through their academic work that theycan successfully pursue and complete advanced behavioral science research or medical advanced degrees. A M-RISP grant has also been submittedto further our efforts in faculty development, thus providing an integrated program of collaborative faculty development,student research training and funded research implementation at Hampton University. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================
